In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible crescent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).

大约在公元前2000年，巴比伦的新年随着春分(春天的第一天)之后的第一个新月(实际上第一个看得见的新月)开始了。

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New Years Day morning, if the heap of debris in front of someones more, it shows someones friend of more must be very lucky New Year.

元旦的早晨，如果谁家门前堆放的碎片越多，则说明他家的朋友越多，新年一定很幸运。

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Celebration of the New Year began to celebrate the New Years day is, countries in the world over the common custom.

庆贺新年的开始，欢度元旦可说是世界各国各地区的普遍习俗。

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The plan now is to have about a thousand and nine hundred something civilian people on the ground in Afghnastan by New Years Day which is about three times of we had last year.

现在的计划是说我们将要派大概1900平民到阿富汗,在新年之前,这个数量是去年的三倍之多。

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Bosnians, meanwhile, celebrated their first peaceful New Year's Day in four years.

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Coronation Street actor William Roache , who has played Ken Barlow since the series began 40 years ago, also becomes an MBE, as does Trevor Harrison , known to millions of listeners as Eddie Grundy in Radio 4's The Archers, which celebrates 50 years on air on New Year's Day.

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Earlier this year Hurricane Isaac hit New Orleans exactly 7 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast in 2005.

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